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Film · 2019

Captive State

Directed by Rupert Wyatt · starring Mickey O'Sullivan, Kevin Dunn and Ashton Sanders

  • 1 h 49 min
  • 12
  • Science fiction · Thriller
  • USA
  • 5.5 AverageMovieNCo
  • 5.6 Users3 votes
  • 5.4 Critics5 reviews
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Synopsis

'Captive State' is an original science fiction story set in a Chicago neighborhood a decade after the extraterrestrial occupation in which this authoritarian society plunged. The film explores both perspectives of the conflict: that of those who decided to collaborate with the newly arrived aliens and that of the dissidents who faced the invasion, thereby risking their lives and putting themselves in danger, facing the consequences that had to come. The film creates a science fiction scenario that serves to shed light on the state of vigilance in which we find ourselves, although we do not realize it, throwing a message with a critical tone and therefore without limiting itself to fiction as many Sometimes we are used to threats to civil liberties and the role of dissent within an authoritarian society. An utopia, ironic and spatial.

Rupert Wyatt ('The Origin of the Planet of the Apes') and John Goodman have come together to produce 'Captive State' with a script created alongside Wyatt's screenwriter and wife, Erica Beeney. After its premiere, the film had criticism of all kinds, both good and bad, highlighting that if its commitment to an original argument despite continuing in the genre of science fiction.

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Availability checked on 8 November 2026.

The essentials

Runtime
109 min1 hour and 49 minutes
Budget
$25mDreamWorks SKG
Box office
$5.3m0.2 times its budget
Rating
12Suitable for 12 years and over
How long is Captive State?
1 hour and 49 minutes (109 minutes).
Who directed Captive State?
Rupert Wyatt.
Who is in Captive State?
It stars Mickey O'Sullivan, Kevin Dunn, Ashton Sanders and Lizzy Leigh.
Where can I watch Captive State?
In the UK it is available with a channel on Prime Video and to rent on Apple TV.
How much did Captive State make?
It took $5.3 million in US. It cost $25 million.
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Cast

Full cast (20)
Director
Rupert Wyatt
Writers
Erica Beeney, Rupert Wyatt
Producers
Rupert Wyatt

Videos and trailers

All 2 videos
Trailer 'Captive State' #2 2:2313 December 2018

Photos and posters

All 15 photos

Reviews

All 5 reviews
5.6 3 votes

What the critics say average 5.4 from 5 outlets

  • 9.0 VarietyJoe Leydon this rigorously intelligent, cunningly inventive, and impressively suspenseful drama plays more like a classic tale about a disparate group of resistance fighters united in a guerrilla campaign… Read
  • 6.0 The GuardianBenjamin Lee "A jumble of themes and ideas jostle for space in an audacious, but often messy, film that takes a familiar alien invasion set-up and goes for broke". Read
  • 5.0 The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd "There are few signs of life in the curiously dour alien-occupation drama Captive State". Read

Box office

Weekend by weekend
  • Budget $25m
  • US $5.3m

Soundtrack

All 20 songs
  1. Gutta NewsJosh Lewis
  2. Into the CanyonL, A, Void Spotify
  3. NumbNatalie Walker Spotify
  4. StardustPublished EMI Mills Music Inc, Songs of Peer, Ltd, ASCAP, Nat 'King' Cole Spotify

Trivia

All 7 facts

  • Abandonment

    Rupert Wyatt left the filming of 'Gambit' (2019) to make this movie.

  • Transformed?

    John Goodman and Kevin Dunn have starred in several Transformers films, but have not appeared together in any of them.

  • An accident in the filming

    Machine Gun Kelly suffered an injury in the chest during the filming. Doctors told him to take a break from his 'Bloom' tour, but he only delayed 3 shows.

  • Silver quarter

    The coin Gabriel uses to make a pay phone call (at 40m 30s) is a "Standing Liberty" silver quarter, issued between 1916 and 1930.

  • They are watching you

    At 36:08 the graffiti behind Gabe warns: "YOU'RE/BEING/WATCHED".

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